One of the most important problems in the fruit industry is that, in general, the period when the market demand is the greatest is not usually the period when the production is the heaviest. In the latter period, surpluses far exceed the off-take capacity of the usual markets. This is particularly so in mango where regular, annual crops are so rare that in the years of heavy crops, the growers are often forced to resort to distress sales. Long time storage under such conditions is inevitable. Further, with the expansion of fruit processing industry, storage is becoming an important factor in the operation of the processing plant at a uniform rate.